More than half of US states allow abortions after 21 weeks.
Posted on 11/09/2017 1:43:05 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
The most premature baby ever born is defying doctors' expectations with her incredibly strong health three years on, according to a new medical report on the unprecedented case. The little girl was born at 21 weeks and four days in San Antonio, Texas, in 2014. Her mother Courtney Stensrud, now 35, had been hospitalized with a common placental infection and ruptured membranes at just three months pregnant, and was told she had to deliver immediately to avoid losing the baby. Lying in the maternity ward, Stensrud remembers frantically searching on her phone for examples of any other babies born at 21 weeks, to no avail. But now, against all odds, the little girl who weighed just 15 ounces at birth is thriving, attending pre-school, has no medical conditions, and is scoring just as well on developmental tests as any other child her age. The report on this case comes just days after new data from The March of Dimes revealed that the premature birth rate in the US has increased for the second year in a row following nearly a decade of decline.
'If you didn't know that she was so preemie, you would think she's a normal three-year-old,' Stensrud told CNN.
'In her school, she is keeping up with all the other three-year-olds. She loves playing with other kids. She loves everything I think a normal three-year-old likes. She loves her baby dolls, she loves books, and she loves make-believe. She loves anything and everything her (older) brother is doing.'
Analyzing the case in Pediatrics today, Stensrud's doctors said this is just one example and not all premature births have such positive outcomes - but this story can be used as a benchmark to learn from to avoid future preterm birth fatalities.
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More than half of US states allow abortions after 21 weeks.
bump for later
That illegal immigrant girl was 21 weeks pregnant I believe.
Exactly. Fully developed human being.
Wait -- "three months pregnant" is only twelve weeks. Did the writer mean seven months? Was she in the maternity ward for four months before the delivery?
I beg your pardon.
I have written here many times that the Daily Mail is the worst-edited newspaper on two continents. Once again they’ve botched the most important part of the story and nobody caught it.
Somebody had “three years old” on the brain and five months became three months.
I have to agree about the bad writing and editing. Here’s what caught my eye:
“Lying in the maternity ward, Stensrud remembers...”
The baby was born three years ago. Why is the mother still lying in the maternity ward?
My mom was born at home in 1914, very “preemie”, though I don’t know the hard numbers as to how far along her mom was.
Her cradle was a shoebox, and her incubator was a hot water bottle. According to older relatives, her head was the size of a Franklin silver dollar.
She died at eighty-four.
“Wait — “three months pregnant” is only twelve weeks. Did the writer mean seven months? Was she in the maternity ward for four months before the delivery?”
It’s the seven-week months, caused by Global Warming. It’s all in your handout. Trust me.
My d-i-l is a NICU nurse. When my husband was having a very long back surgery [5+ hrs] at her hospital, to take my mind off his surgery, she took me on a tour of her unit. They had a baby there that weighed 12 oz, although IIRC, that baby was born at 31 weeks? Anyway, I was awed by how very tiny and translucent that preemie was and thinking to myself, that baby weighed the same as a can of Coke. Its amazing the work that is done in NICU.....NICU nurses and dr’s are Gods angels. Oh and that baby I saw....she made it....I don’t remember, though, if she had any permanent health issues.
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